Diverse challenges, personalities, hybrid offices and more call for diverse leadership skills. Navid Ahdieh, Managing Director and Global Leader of Strategy and Management Consulting at North Highland, shares how his life path developed his leadership style. He and Brandon talk [...]
“If you lose money, you can make more money. If you lose time, it’s gone forever.” On today’s episode of The Leadership Foundry Podcast, Co-Founders Brandon Smith and Randy Hain discuss insights for setting priorities as a leader. 1:30 We're [...]
I have been leading people since I was a 16 year old in high school working at a restaurant in the small town where I grew up. Leadership has always been a passion for me and after years of study, reading [...]
Leadership Foundry Coach and Facilitator, Ashley Freeman, joins Co-Founder, Brandon Smith, to talk career purpose, self-awareness and our emotions at work. 2:45 What's the importance of purpose? Ashley talks quiet-quitting and post-pandemic life in the office. 3:45 So where do [...]
I was thinking this morning about an email I received Friday from a former coaching client who I worked with in 2019. The email simply read: “I can't thank you enough for the helpful advice. I made a lot of the [...]
As I typically do at the end of every year, I spent some time early this morning thinking about 2022, lessons I learned and considering what I plan to focus on in 2023. I reflected on a broad range of experiences, [...]
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton, Pulitzer Prize-winning author I recently spoke with a senior leader in my business network on the topic of inspiring and encouraging employees [...]
What does it take to transform a business? On this edition of the Leadership Foundry Podcast, guest Rob Pepper, Sr. Director of Strategy and Transformation at Papa John's highlights the importance of influence. 02:00 Meet Rob and learn about his [...]
Today on the Leadership Foundry Podcast, Ken Keen, Associate Dean of Leadership Development, Senior Lecturer at Emory University - Goizueta Business School and Retired Lieutenant General, highlights the importance of showing up. While this is a leadership fundamental, Ken explains what [...]
Meetings are notoriously one of organizational life’s most insufferable realities. U.S. companies spend more than $37 billion dollars a year on them. Employees in American companies spend more than one-third of their time in them. And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive.” - Ron Carucci, Harvard [...]
